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Someone needs to be reminded that anticompetitive practices are illegal (feddit.de)

submitted 9 months ago by Oiconomia@feddit.de to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 54 points 9 months ago

DisplayPort gang?

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 9 months ago

Sadly also not an open standard, in reality but they are friendlier to FOSS.

[-] Bronco1676@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 months ago

At least it is royality free compared to HDMI which has a large annual fee + per unit fee for manufacturers

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 9 months ago

Oh. It's absolutely superior on the royalties side. Just incredibly frustrating that what should be an open standard that anyone can tinker with is not.

[-] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 6 points 9 months ago

It's at least partially because the specification was designed to detect and thwart attempts to tee the video and audio data in order to bypass copy protection on DVDs and Blu-Rays, iirc.

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 9 months ago

It is indeed and the fact that I don't care about any of that makes it that much more frustrating. I got bored with piracy nearly two decades ago and just want to implement my own open-source virtual display systems in hardware and gateway I shouldn't need to either cough up thousands of dollars a year or find a copy of a PDF that someone "accidentally" left at a public location in order to do so with an established protocol standard.

[-] harmsy@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago

Accidental DisplayPort guy checking in. I didn't even know it was a thing until I bought my graphics card. It seems like I dummied my way into some good tech.